Posts Tagged: Tazria
Celebrating Life Amid the Presence of Death
We live in dystopian times. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I...
The Torah Teaches That Feeling No Pain Is a Weakness
You will be excused for not having heard of the latest Bollywood movie sensation, a film called Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, which translates as...
Parshat Tazria: The Sacrifices of Childbirth Don’t Demean Women
At the start of this week's parsha, there is a cluster of laws that challenged and puzzled the commentators. They concern a woman who has...
What the Torah Teaches Us About Childbirth
This week, a remarkable breakthrough in the field of premature childbirth was announced. An artificial womb -- a plastic sac, filled with temperature controlled amniotic fluid...
The Covenant of Circumcision: Why the Eighth Day Is So Holy
Our parsha this week begins with childbirth. It says that, in the case of a male child, “On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin...
The High Price of Free Speech
Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing, she enjoyed an active social life and seemed to have an exciting...
